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tedcox, you are not the only one -- I am suffering the same problem with the 2.6 kernel. But what concerns me is that I have the exact same mouse as you. That would seem to be a pretty big co-incidence... but if you have any other PS/2 mice around it might help for you to see if there is some odd quirk with our cordless mice that doesn't allow it to work with 2.6 for some bizarre reason.
same here.
Just tried 2.6.1, and mouse is dead... but I remember I had some issues with mouse on this mainboard even with 2.4 (ecs k7s5a), but it helped to turn on usb for dos support in bios.
Didn't try to turn it _off_ for 2.6, yet.
I get the same problem as you all describe except that option is not in my bios. I have an MSI nforce2 board. Can someone help me get my mouse working.
I have just had the same problem, am about to try switching off USB Dos support, but I notice that you have the same modell mainboard as me. The reason I bring this up is because I have two of these boards, and both have the same intermittent fault, every now and again, the sec slave is not detected and the message appears
Sec Slave ATAPI Incompatable
Press F1 to resume
have you ever had this problem, I have tried contacting the manufacturer of the board, but no support, I've upgraded to the latest BIOS version.
mmm, well I didn't even get to test as disabling USB DOS support, didn't let me use grub with my usb keyboard. I would buy a new one, but it's black and silver and nice....
Distribution: Linux From Scratch. 64 bit. Kernel 5.8.3. Fluxbox.
Posts: 53
Rep:
ps2 mouse
If the ps/2 mouse is supposed to be loaded as a module, then it may be not happening. It is not necessarily auto-detected. I tried
modprobe psmouse
That was successful - giving console access immediately.
Subsequently I have started X, and that works too.
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